British Hackers Target Falklands Computer Game
A new front has been opened in the long-running dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, after UK hackers attacked an online game in which Argentine special forces battle British 'terrorists' for control of the islands.
On Monday 24 March, Dattatec.com, a company based in Rosario, Argentina, launched a version of the popular online game Counter Strike based in the Falklands. The company claims it has already been downloaded 15,000 times.
"In 1982, Argentines fought the English to recover the sovereignty of their Malvinas islands," reads the game's opening sequence. The Malvinas is the Argentine term for the Falklands. The company claims it excludes the Union flag from the game's map ""out of respect to the honour and glory of those who fell in the Malvinas".
